Gribble, Travis

Cooper, Jennifer

Dubois, Wayne

Mental Health Wellness Best Practices: For The Agency & The Team

First responder agencies and teams should have a robust mental health wellness program. This includes a change in culture, critical incident response policies, PEER, established relationships with culturally competent clinicians, crisis plans in place, and bi-annual assessments of program data. Examples of implementation challenges and successes will be discussed in depth. These programs can be implemented by both the agency and/or your teams. This presentation focuses on SWAT implementation as well as agency implementation.

Travis Gribble - Bio

This presentation will provide an overview of Sgt. Travis Gribble's real-world experience dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress while assigned to patrol and SWAT. His therapist, Jennifer Cooper, will describe her time treating Sgt. Gribble, including lessons learned and roadmaps for officers to achieve full-length healthy careers.

Jennifer Cooper - Bio

Jennifer Cooper, LPC, NCC, is a former LEO and crisis responder for a local Fire Department in Phoenix, Arizona. Jennifer has worked in social and public services for over 22 years and specializes in treating depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress among first responder and EMS populations. Jennifer has experience working with special ops operators, investigators, and members of command staff in police and fire departments. Jennifer holds a master's degree in Clinical Psychology and a master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, is a Certified Trauma Professional, Nationally Certified Counselor, and Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Arizona. She is also the President/owner of the new non-profit organization, Line of Duty AZ.

Wayne Dubois - Bio

Wayne is currently the Undersheriff at the Flathead County (MT) Sheriff's Office. He also serves as the SWAT commander of a regional SWAT team. Previously, Wayne was a police officer in Washington State from 1996 to 2019 and an active SWAT team member from 1998 to 2019. He was a team leader for his regional SWAT team from 2005 to 2019.

DuBois is an instructor in numerous SWAT disciplines, instructing both his team and regionally for the Washington State Tactical Officers Association (WSTOA) from 2002 to 2017. During that time, he served as the President and as a lead instructor for the WSTOA. He was named SWAT Officer of the Year and Police Officer of the Year and was awarded the Medal of Valor. DuBois serves as a Western Region Director for the National Tactical Officers Association and instructs in the NTOA's Command Cadre. DuBois holds an M.A. in Executive Leadership from Liberty University.

Before law enforcement, he served four years on active duty as a ground surveillance systems operator in the U.S. Army, including deployment to Southwest Asia for six months during Operation Desert Shield & Storm.